Conservative

Famous quotes containing the word conservative:

“I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)